- updated to 0.8.0
This release features many algorithm updates, including removal
of algorithms and variants no longer proceeding through NIST
standardization and updates to newer versions. See the detailed list
of algorithm updates below.
Key encapsulation mechanisms:
- BIKE: updated to Round 4 version.
- Kyber: 90s variants were removed.
- NTRU Prime: All variants were removed, except for sntrup761.
- Saber: removed.
Digital signature schemes
- Dilithium; AES variants were removed.
- Falcon: updated to the 2023-02-07 version.
- Picnic: removed.
- Rainbow: removed.
- SPHINCS+: updated to version 3.1; SPHINCS+-Haraka variants were removed; SPHINCS+-SHA256 and SPHINCS+-SHAKE variants were renamed
Other changes
- Add Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM)
- Improve building on ARM platforms
- Improve performance when using OpenSSL 3 for symmetric cryptography
- Increment shared object library version
- New configure-time options for algorithm selections
- pkgconfig file now available
- removed 0001-Add-support-for-powerpc64.-1160.patch: upstream
- 0002-Mark-stack-non-executable-when-compiling-with-clang-.patch: upstream
- liboqs is now liboqs.so.3.